So glad to see this post....I do the same exact thing. It's so weird.

I told my daughter to put the broccoli in the attic ! And my kids (both adults) have to finish my sentences for me because the word just won't come to me. It's like I can see it in my head but it won't come out of my mouth.

And they all laugh too......I'm guessing it's my meds for small fiber neuropathy. Not really sure. And it's very frustrating to me too.

Hope someone can help us out with this

Debi from Georgia

Just tell your Dr. the symptoms, exactly what you've told us here and s/he will diagnose it. It's probably aphasia... but Dr.'s typically don't like it when you go in and tell them what you have...

Since the auto accident and concussion I sustained I have suffered from aphasia. It's getting better, but it's 3.5+ years since... and I'm taking a lot of hormones that were caused by deficiencies from the concussion... and it still happens! It's frustrating but it's definitely a common symptom of a tbi.

These symptoms are common. As mentioned before, just tell the doctor the symptoms without trying to medically define them. I had the whole spectrum of word finding and expressing difficulties early on. Now, I only experience the word finding difficulty infrequently. You are doing it right by laughing about it. It lowers your stress level. For me, stress made this cluster of dysfunctions worse.

The doc may suggest speech therapy but in time, this should become less of a problem. Speech therapy just causes more stress as you focus on the symptom.

Mark is right, focusing on it, or stressing out about it just makes it worse.

For the record, I was ordered speech therapy for a SLEW of issues and this was a small one in comparison to what else I was dealing with...